The Life We Bury

by Allen Eskens

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A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years...Read more
  • ISBN10 1616149981
  • ISBN13 9781616149987
  • Publish Date 14 October 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 12 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Seventh Street Books
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 303
  • Language English